Word: candau
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Overshadowing all WHO's activities against particular diseases, reported Director General Marcolino Gomes Candau, is the antimalaria campaign-"the most gigantic scheme ever undertaken for the benefit of man." When WHO began its war on malaria seven years ago, 1.4 billion people (half the world's total) lived in malarious areas, and 200 million had the disease. Now, Dr. Candau can proudly report, malaria has been wiped out from areas containing 317 million people...
...Politics. The man most responsible for WHO's progress on 825 projects in 1961, "Marco" Candau, 51, is the first person in history to earn the title of "doctor to the world." Born across the bay from Rio de Janeiro, graduated from its school of medicine in 1933, Dr. Candau went to work in his home state's health department. After a year at Johns Hopkins, where he polished his correct English, Dr. Candau won acclaim in a Rockefeller health project in Brazil. From that, it was but a step to WHO in 1950, running its office...
...bedside physician but a doctors' doctor, Candau is ideally suited for the job of getting things organized so that other people can treat more patients and train more doctors and nurses. Technically domiciled in Geneva, he spends nearly half the year flying around the world, visiting WHO's member states. Coming from nonaligned Brazil, Dr. Candau began work at WHO with an innate advantage over his predecessor (Canadian Psychiatrist Brock Chisholm): the Soviet Union and its satellites, which had walked out of WHO in 1949 for political reasons, accepted his neutrality and returned. As smooth in manner...